Shoot Light-Painting Photos During the Day Using an ND Filter
Light-painting photography is generally done in the dark since you need long exposure times to capture moving light sources as streaks. But use can also shoot long-exposure photos in bright sunlight using a neutral density filter. Photographer Eric Paré recently did just that, experimenting with doing light-painting in afternoon daylight.
“As with my usual work, the trick here is to be able to balance three things: the ambient light, the camera settings, and the brightness of the tube,” Paré tells PetaPixel.
Since the ND filter blocks not only sunlight but also his light-painting tube light, Paré used an extremely powerful light-painting tube — one consisting of four separate 1,200-lumen flashlights for 5,000 lumens of light through a T12 Milky tube.
Here’s a 4-minute behind-the-scenes video showing Paré’s daytime light-painting experiments:
“We are aware that these are not our best pictures, but the idea was mostly to experiment with drastically different conditions,” Paré.
